Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Authority

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Doe, Common

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.120, Orient Paperbacks

• In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Moral, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Challenges, Opponents, Fighter

• Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Summer, Spring, Book

• The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1923). “Letters on Indian Affairs”

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